Sampling
the gestural painterliness and collage aesthetics that underlie her practice, these prints hint at the darker role the body plays in Schneemann's sorrowful diagnosis of Western civilization's malaises.
The curator Klaus Kertess wrote that Mitchell «transformed
the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well.
Summing up her achievement, Klaus Kertess wrote, «She transformed
the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well.
Not exact matches
It is an important moment because in the paintings from this period the combination of the expressive,
gestural mode (as in the beautiful
painterliness of the background of Treatise on the Veil) and of a conceptual, intellectual approach is particularly successful.
Willem de Kooning's vehement
gestural abstraction had been exiled to art limbo, as had the work of Joan and others who sought to extend its
painterliness, not rebel against it.